Portrait of the Blog-Master

Leon Berger, author of ‘SURVIVAL IN BOCA RATON’ graduated from N. Y. U. in l949 and has worked at a variety of jobs ranging  from performing biological assays to determine compliance of medications  with the  United States Pharmacopoeia  and extending to inspections of radiological installations for the Office of Radiation Control in the City of New York  An awakening, dramatic experience changed the course of his life when, while visiting his daughter, he instructed his four year old grandson to ‘pick up your toys.’  The 2’ tall tyke, his chin thrust out defiantly, said” You’re not the boss.”  It was at this moment of truth that Leon Berger vowed that he would become a boss and, together with his wife Myra, formed a pioneer surgical/medical manufacturing company where he enjoyed the fruits of being a boss until the F.D.A. issued a recall on the firm’s key product.  It was then Mr. Berger realized that he was not the boss; the F.D.A. was the boss.  In time Myra and Leon Berger retired to an upscale gated community in

Boca Raton where he was the boss of his domain, or so he thought until the Home Owner’s Association told him what he could or could not do.  Once again it was made painfully clear that Mr. Berger was not the boss; the HOA was the boss. In desperation, this blog was created and Leon Berger is finally an indisputable Boss.  When his grandson returns home from his University at the next school break, he will be confronted by a confident grandfather who will ask him:  “Who says I am not the boss?”  

 SURVIVAL IN BOCA RATON,  a collecton of short stories  ISBN  1-55395-722-9, is available from TRAFFORD PRESS   Toll free 1-888-232-4444                                                                    

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